Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 19

They told him of their hunting, but they were not proud, for Hiawatha was wiser than any chief, and he knew what was in their hearts.

Who acts: people, Hiawatha · What happens: tell, not be, be, know, hunt · To what, where: Hiawatha, hearts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Hiawatha), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hunting	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hunting	nmod:poss
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proud	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 proud	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 proud	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 proud	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 proud	advmod
12	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wiser	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 wiser	mark
15	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 wiser	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wiser	cop
17	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 proud	conj
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 chief	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 chief	det
20	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wiser	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 knew	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 hearts	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hearts	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 hearts	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hearts	nmod:poss
29	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 knew	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	people	Hiawatha		of people's hunting	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	not is	past	people			proud property	tree rules
3	is	past	Hiawatha			than any chief; wise property	tree rules
4	know	past	Hiawatha				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past			people's hearts	what nsubj; people nmod:poss	tree rules
6	hunt		people				nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 19